Invest Like The Best
Episode 153 Finding Your Note
Invest Like The Best

Episode 153: Finding Your Note

Invest Like The Best

Episode 153

Finding Your Note

Peter Buffett is co-chair of the NoVo Foundation, an Emmy Award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. We cover community, philanthropy, and finding ones note in life.

[00:01:35] – Why Peter is in Kingston and how it plays into his foundation work

[00:04:01] – How moving from the city to the country changed Peter

[00:06:27] – Seeing connections vs living abstractions

[00:07:30] – What is the Nova Foundation

[00:11:03] – Historical points that inform his views

[00:13:51] – Identifying qualitative negative side effects and which ones they are attacking

[00:17:51] – What makes for effective community

[00:20:22] – Linkage between consumption and individualism

[00:23:55] – The cultivation of work ethic, curiosity, and education

[00:27:22] – Early exploration of his curiosity

[00:32:26] – What has music taught Peter about music that is unique to that experience

[00:34:26] – Most memorable question a person has asked Peter at his concert and conversation series

[00:36:46] – What makes for good relationships, in particular marriage

[00:42:03] – What keeps people from putting in the work into a relationship

[00:45:11] – What he has learned about being a good friend

[00:46:29] – How does one person have a relationship with a large community

[00:49:21] – Dark sides of the philanthropic world

[00:55:55] – What one spot would he send everyone to learn

[00:57:48] – Traumas and helping people find their note

[01:02:24] – What Peter is most interested in right now: how to best use Nova’s funds

[01:04:45] – Lessons from family

[01:07:22] – Kindest thing anyone has done for Peter

Finding Your Note

Introduction

Patrick
My guest today is Peter Buffett. Peter is a musician, composer, author and philanthropist. He's an Emmy Award winner, New York Times bestselling author and co-chair of the NoVo Foundation. We discuss music, community, philanthropy, and finding one's note in life. This is a very different episode, much more about life in general with no business or investing discussed. Like his father, Warren, Peter has the gene for phrasing ideas in memorable ways. And I think you'll find many great phrases in this chat that will stick with you. I've been thinking about Peter's idea of making sure those in your life are safe, seen and celebrated ever since our chat. Please enjoy our conversation.

Peter
As my dad would say, "Testing, 1 billion, 2 billion."

Community

Patrick
I might keep that in. That's pretty funny. So Peter, I'm really appreciative of the time today. And since we're sitting in Kingston, a place that you've deliberately chosen, I'm always interested by how people end up where they end up and what they like about the place. So I thought we'd maybe actually start with the place that we're sitting. What is it about Kingston that led you to ultimately plant your roots here? And we'll use that to trace backwards in time.

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